Boris Andreyevich Pavlov (Russian: Борис Андреевич Павлов; 21 March 1947 – 22 May 2004[3]) was a Russian weightlifter who won a world title in 1971.
Next year he won a European title and competed at the 1972 Olympics, but failed to complete the press event.
[4] Between 1969 and 1972 Pavlov set six ratified world records.
[5] Pavlov spent his last 20 years in Furmanov, where a memorial weightlifting tournament is held in his honor after his death.
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